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Gale Force Winds Can't Stop Gael from Being a Force



You’ve heard of gale force winds, but this was a wind that force Gael back.

Watch as Gael Monfils suffers one of the strangest, wind-addled aces that we’ve seen in a long time during his three-set win over American Reilly Opelka at the Millenium Estoril Open on Wednesday.

All Monfils could do is say “Ahhh, no” before cracking a big smile and laughing it off.

He would go on to win the final seven games to notch a 3-6 6-3 6-0 victory over Opelka and improve to 16-3. It his his best career start through 19 matches to date.

Three other players, led by top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas, joined Monfils in the quarter-finals in Estoril on Wednesday. Tsitsipas eased past Guido Andreozzi 6-3 6-4 to notch his 20th match win of the season against just nine losses.

The Greek will face Portugal’s Joao Dominques, who advanced when Aussie John Millman retired down 6-3 2-1 on Wednesday.

In other action, 19-year-old Alejandro Davidovich Fokina reached his first ATP quarter-final with a dominant 6-1 6-2 victory over Jeremy Chardy that saw him drop just eight points on serve. The Spaniard, a 2017 Wimbledon Boys Singles champion as well as a 2017 Roland Garros Boys Singles semi-finalist, had won his first match at the ATP level just yesterday.

The draw shapes up as follows as of last ball on Wednesday. The four other quarter-final slots will be determined on Thursday.

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